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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, I wasn't going to go down this path but feel I must at this point.   The process of AAP level 4 center based schools and the selection of students.  Clearly some children are gifted and should have extra and different challenges in school, but when schools are reporting that more than 25% are being accepted something is not right.   In addition to this, no 7 or 8 year old child needs to know they are so gifted, unless they ask why they are different.   It would seem if a child were this gifted they would have the sense to reason it out on their own.
Instead, we have kids now who go around saying what they made on their scores and how they will be going to a better school now.   FCPS is doing a great injustice to these kids.   What happened to neighborhood schools....we go with our friends?   Gone, instead we create the upper class and the lower class and children are not prepared to deal with this emotionally.   Nobody is better than anybody else.   Testing should be done but careful observation by teachers who work with the kids should be demanded in the process.   A central selection committee doesn't know x from y and really cannot see how a child works.   In life, we do have to learn to get along with others and learn to pay attention and be polite.   But the kids from my school are not doing any of these things.....parents lets them do anything!   In addition, students who are doing well and thriving well beyond their grade level now hate school because they have been left out.   I certainly didn't become a teacher to watch this go on.   Schools can and do handle many types of students, don't take these "gifted" kids out of the neighbor hood school.  Keep them there......remember INCLUSION![/quote]

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